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“Delivering for America” is intended to cut costs and increase efficiency, as the postal service strives to break even amid a $9.5 billion dollar loss last year due in part to mail volume declines and inflation.

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum last week ordered all national parks to “remain open and accessible.” The directive comes after about 1,000 National Park Service employees were fired. In March, a federal judge ordered them – and thousands of other laid-off federal workers – to be reinstated, but the U.S. Supreme Court recently blocked that order.

In this episode, Dan introduces PhoenixQRF founders Jake VerSteeg and Jesse Williams. Their mission is to provide a safe place for Veterans in their community to support camaraderie surrounding common experiences “by Veterans, for Veterans”, finding purpose through the challenges they faced while in the defense of their nation as Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, and Airmen.

Idaho is one of several states that doesn’t require hearing screenings for newborns. This can mean that deaf or hard of hearing babies don’t get immediate access to the care that could help improve their condition or even reverse their hearing loss. Dr. Kristina Blaiser and Kat Ross explain how important family support is in early intervention, along with a project they developed to bring families and providers across Idaho together in order to respond to the needs of families with children who are deaf and hard of hearing.

Since the World Center for Birds of Prey opened its doors in 1994 in South Boise over 500,000 students have come to the facility to learn about birds, the environment and hands-on science.

You may have taken a tour or been to an event on the grounds of the Old Idaho Penitentiary, but there’s an even darker side to the prison that you may not be familiar with: the cemetery. More than half of the markers in the cemetery have no names, and some that do can’t be found on any of the prison records which begs the question, who is buried there?

Earlier this week, Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed into law what’s been dubbed the Clean Slate Act. The bipartisan legislation allows people with “minor non-violent, non-sexual offenses” to ask to shield their criminal record from public view if they meet certain conditions.

A sun-sized space detector called LISA is set to catch ripples from colliding black holes, giving scientists a brand-new way to explore the universe.

Parenting can be stressful, but when you have children with chronic illness or complex medical conditions, stress is often not the only thing that caregivers struggle with. That's why one professor has started a new study that looks at whether or not practicing mindfulness could help improve the mental health of parents dealing with higher than usual stress levels.

Tracy Stone-Manning served as Montana's Director of the Department of Environmental Quality and she served with the National Wildlife Federation. Then in 2021, President Biden asked her to become the Director of the Bureau of Land Management. She spends a lot of time on the road, including this week as the guest of the Cecil Andrus Center for Public Policy and the annual conference of the Society of Environmental Journalists in Boise.